We flew to Abilene. Unlike other characters on the show, we share a deadly secret with the sympathetic serial killer. For those of us who revel in the weird pop-culture soup this came from, its one hell of a movie. We were doing a false 2008. Maybe there was someone at some point who wanted to cut it out, but anyone who wanted to cut that out of the movie was probably someone at some point who was like, Can you cut the Justin Timberlake dance number? I think those are the same kinds of people who were like, Can you cut the cars fucking? You know, like clearly someone who just has no business ever watching this movie, should just stay a thousand feet away from this movie for the rest of their life. WebSouthland (TV Series 20092013) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Dont worry, so is everyone else. That was another little splinter photography thing, with the real news anchors of KTLA in Los Angeles doing their alternate history 2008 news stuff about the MegaZeppelin and US-IDENT. I want their characters to be given full cinematic justice, because they did such a great job for me. He said yes, right away. So I had all those schematics. Its always been kind of compromised. Justin, I need you to narrate this movie. And then I had this idea of doing the prologue in Abilene, Texas, knowing that we have these two nuclear attacks that happened mysteriously in Texas that are sort of the catalyst for the alternate universe. Hed just worked out at Golds Gym, and he ordered, I think, about five scrambled eggs, a steak, and a gigantic bowl of broccoli. Priscilla Elliott: I know the studio really didnt want the car. And these 6-foot, 6-inch Marilyn Monroes walked towards me, and I didnt know what they were going to be wearing. Then we threw a fake Fourth of July party at my uncles house, and it was, I think, May of 2005. Ditto the raconteurs of "Revenge," "Burn Notice," "Red Band Society" and any other series we omitted. For every Batman, there is aCondorman. If anything, I felt honored that I was getting to work with so many of them. This is what qualifies it for this weeksWeird Watch. You better watch it buddy. This peek into Dexter's intellect fosters a deep connection with the audience. Priscilla Elliott: We rented [the giant toilet in the neo-Marxist hideout]; it was from a music video. The lives of Police Officers working for the Los Angeles Police Department.The lives of Police Officers working for the Los Angeles Police Department.The lives of Police Officers working for the Los Angeles Police Department. Other names. We just told them to go out and just goof around and put the camera in peoples faces and ask people questions and do whatever you want with it. One is the 2008 stuff, in the three days that lead up to Boxer, Krysta, the Taverner twinsa lot of the characters are out in Lake Mead in Las Vegas, and then they all come to L.A. So what is a narrator? And they were shooting this kind of rally with Cheri Oteris character. And, of course, everything goes wrong. No cause of death reported. Link. All these tourists were walking by, like real people, and all the dancing nurses were coming in. She put so much time into rehearsal; she just wanted to be perfect. The first three chapters have two elements to them. 1 Donnie Darko fan. I always told him, if I was going to get a vanity plate for your car, thatd be what it was: SCP CRP. You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. This omniscient narrator's matter-of-fact observations supply many of the comedic effects, heightening the adult fairy tale about a pie-maker who can revive the dead. Its difficult for me to just end it on that one statement. That only took maybe a few minutes to do, and that was it. And everyone had a great time. I think people just sort of shrugged, you know. You have to jump from location to location, and this is a movie with a lot of big, complicated, expensive locations, very public locations. The. And every stunt that you see in the movie, whether its a squib, whether its an ice cream truck flipping over, or an ATM being ripped out of a wall, practical stunts and effects stunts: Every single one of those that you see in the movie, we had literally one take to get it right. Ah, the dulcet tones of Laura Dern's spiritually awakened narrations on "Enlightened." I thought about how much would it be for me to get a flight to France and go? Just dont come near this movie. Richard Kelly: In my mind, its a satirical response to the Bush era and 9/11 and the War On Terror. I figured, Lets just swing for the fences. And it just kept getting bigger and bigger. Your internal diary is jealous of her introspection, which underscores the themes of every "Grey's Anatomy" episode. On May 10, 2013, TNT announced the series of Southland after five seasons (no season six). A narrator is the voice of the storyteller in every piece of literature. WebFrothing at the mouth and snarling, Dolly begins to chase Buck, who flees in confused terror from her. Its the bigger, completed version of Southland Tales that Ive been working to try and complete. My cousin, Dee Austin Robertson, was helping me with a lot of the second unit surveillance video footage in the film. Vaughn Smallhouse and Fortunio Balducci and Dr. Soberin Exxall those character names are very referential to characters in Kiss Me Deadly, or actors who appeared in Kiss Me Deadly. I remember I was on the phone with the gentleman from India with the elephant-fucking footage. "Sometimes a crime of passion is not realizing the passion in time," the narrator tells us in Season 1. Speaking to IndieWire in 2019, Johnson recalled I took it in the gut. As Kelly later said, We were just walking into a shredder. Once all the pre-roll was shot, production began. Dude's suppose to made ou What do you think I am, the King of LA. It was really crazy, but it was just like a leap of faith, you know? Claire Danes' voice-overs are like diary entries that you might have actually written at the ripe age of 15, anxious and semi-hopeful without becoming maudlin. Im getting ready to go to Boston to shoot my big Warner Bros. movie thats hopefully going to salvage my career. Your Narrator is an American content creator, social media, and YouTuber who is best known for his videos of narration while playing games such as Fortnite and Minecraft that he uploads to his YouTube channel titled Your Narrator. An action-movie star named Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson) is baffled when reality keeps mirroring the events in his script in Southland Tales. Headlined by Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, and Sarah So the [Doomsday Scenario Interface] was really just, lets try and cobble together some of the essential elements of these three graphic novels that are very essential to the story in my mind. For the last 2 & 1/2 weeks I've had these book smart, street stupid, bs experts telling me how I'm suppose to feel before I go back on the streets. Im like, Oh, my god, Ive got to go back and watch that.. We spoke to Cloris Leachmans management, and they were like, Well, Cloris doesnt work for scale.. He factors into one of Southland Talesmost notorious sequences, a psychedelic musical number where Abilene ambles around an arcade lip-syncing to The Killers All These Things That Ive Done, accompanied by a chorus line of women in platinum wigs and vinyl nurses uniforms. Kelly seemed to be wondering that, too. They have this other performance life. They thought it was a lost cause. Hes been Dwaynes makeup artist for years, on many movies, and he did all the tattoos, he did all the old age makeup on Kevin [Smith] and Beth Grant. So literally, the whole movie was hinging on this one musical number in my mind. I was still working on the script, and Rick Yorn [the high-profile Hollywood manager whose clients include Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, and, notably, Justin Timberlake] had set up a meeting with Benicio del Toro, and he thought the project was really wild. Todd Berger: I run into people who either say its the worst piece of shit theyve ever seen, or theyre like, Dude, its one of my favorite movies. And there doesnt seem to be a lot of in-between. To build one of those would have been way out of our budget, but we knew we wanted to at least try and build one with CGI. It premiered on NBC , Hed already turned down a few offers to helm franchise films for major studios; he was still driven by the urge to direct something that was his, an expression of his constantly expanding interests. Lucero: They were checking me out like crazy in there. I didn't know. We had a CD of all the songs in the movie, like a bootleg soundtrack. It gives you a tease of what the big prequel film could look like on a much, much more lavish scale, with real major animation and the actors performing, whether its just performing the voices, or performing motion capture animation techniques that are now significantly more advanced with todays technology. And, you know, we made it look at least that good. But what makesSouthland Talesso entertaining is just how unique and bizarre it is. Dude's suppose to made out of tires and they make him white. I was like, Give me more, I want more SNL people. I was still rewriting the script and trying to take it to the next level, with the religion and the science fiction and the politics and US-IDENT, all the things that were happening at the time as Bush was heading toward his second term and reelection. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. In 2005, director Richard Kelly was in a unique position inside the Hollywood ecosystem. He has all these abilities to do these really intricate things with his face, he can move the muscles in his face by just a few millimeters, almost the way Jim Carrey can do things. Information and images about the show opening credits can be found clicking here. Is there any footage of elephants mating? And they found this piece. Lucero: I didn't know.Cooper: You won't be mistaken for Sherlock Holmes. After plunging through the woods and through ice, with Dolly snarling only one leap behind him, Buck finally passes through the camp 2023 TV GUIDE, A FANDOM COMPANY. Richard Kelly: I think Seann was the first actor to get on board the film, to play the twins. There are serious moments too. Richard Kelly: The very first draft of Southland Tales was written right after Sundance in 2001. Narrator Private Pilot Abilene (Justin Timberlake), is a soldier returned from Iraq with serious PTSD and a gnarly scar across his pretty face. This is not a comprehensive list, so our apologies to Ted Mosby, whose "How I Met Your Mother" narration ultimately dampened the show's premise. Critics Consensus: Southland's second season is a major improvement over its first, with tense, fast-moving action scenes, sharply drawn characters, and intertwining I had all the visual design concept art, I had designs for the MegaZeppelin that had been commissioned by the great concept artist Ron Cobb, who worked on so many great science fiction works. You dont want people going like, Its fine. And then it was up to me to come up with the movement. He often responds to others in his head before uttering anything aloud. Years active. And at the center of it all: a pair of twins, Roland and Ronald Taverner, played by Seann William Scott. And they were working on getting the pyrotechnics and everything to work for the gag. I was able to map out the choreography and the style from reading the script and hearing Richard talk about Justins character, what he was going through, what this kind of music-video-like number was that we were doing. So all that stuff with Timberlake was shot that day. Frankly, this list had to end somewhere. Most cops manage to stay sane despite the chaos all around them, You want to go ruin his day? In 2020, Kelly began talking about his plans to reinvent the Southland Tales prequel chapters as a second film, that would serve as a companion piece to the original. Do you know the Michelin Man is white. [9] Zirnkilton received a Legislative Sentiment for his work from Maine State Representative Chris Greeley. NBC executives disliked the character of Officer Dewey Dudek and wanted him to be killed off when the show was airing on NBC.
